N andita S harma . Home Rule

Nandita Sharma’s Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Migrants and Natives is a provocative critique of nation-state sovereignty—the now ubiquitous global form for political community that became a truly global phenomenon in the breakup of empire states following World War II. What Nandita Sharma calls the “Postcolonial New World Order” is, in her uncompromising account, a “farce” (273). This is because the nation-state form of sovereignty is fundamentally unable to satisfy promises of true justice and equality for all. Decolonization in the form of the nation-state did not break from imperial violence and exploitation. Rather it continued and intensified the rapacious practices inaugurated by capitalist imperialism, producing unequal conditions between the wealthiest and the poorest around the world. Sharma is a sociologist, and her book is chronologically ordered in a tight argument that draws on historical examples and evidence from a range of modern imperial and postcolonial locations...

Argument (complex analysis) · Decolonization · Economic history · Economic Justice · Empire · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

• Reconstructing geographies of margins

  Open Access•Kolar Aparna•Tijdschrift voor Economische en…•2024

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